Information Security Manager

Vivekanand Iyer

Email: **************@*****.***

Phone: 437-***-****

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vivekanand-iyer-46

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Senior Business Operations Professional with 18 years of experience

Major roles in India and UK, Singapore and now working in Canada

Areas of expertise include strategy, operational excellence transformation and Financial management including budgeting and financial reporting

Excellent stakeholder management skills working with an array of different Partners/senior leaders

Focus on team-building, networking, planning & implementation

Strong and well received written and verbal communication skills

International in outlook, experience and mindset

Development of people with a strong instinct to coach and empower

Works well when influencing outcomes without the need to have direct authority

Able to build trust and relationships, particularly when supporting leadership teams

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director Operations

PwC Canada Feb. 2019

Responsible for the internal operations of the Immigration practice as well as working closely with the Immigration Law Practice Lead to provide support in running of the Canada and Americas business

I coordinate with all support functions like HC, Finance, Markets, Risk & Quality, Transformation and IT

Some achievements

oHelp in finalizing the Immigration practices’ 3-year vision

oCurrently implementing the vision

oSet up organizational support to achieve the vision

oWorking on key initiatives like transformation and improving people satisfaction scores

Director/Associate Director Operations

PwC India Nov. 2013 – Feb. 2019

In this role, I was supporting the internal operations of the Tax LoS for PwC India business including HC, IT, Facilities, Markets, Finance, Ethics, Risk and Independence and Office of General Counsel as well as working closely with the National Tax Leader to provide support to him on the running of the business

Convened the Tax Leadership team meetings and oversaw implementation of all the decisions made

Represented the Tax practice on the various internal boards led by the COO. CFO and CTO

Led large transformational projects worth millions of dollars including

oA new Go to market initiative (fundamentally altering the way we operated)

oBusiness review conducted by an external senior consultant

oFormulated and implemented Tax practices’ 3-year vision

Set up a 100-member Service Delivery Center including a new office for VAT return preparation for PwC Middle East and GST filing for PwC India

Supervised a multi-million-dollar PMO for all global funding (Strategic Projects and Information Security) for major investments across the PwC Network of Firm (worked in London, UK and Gurgaon, India)

Mentored Partner and Director candidates for Partner/Director Admission Panel

Assistant Director

Ernst & Young India Dec. 2011 – Nov. 2013

Led a 70-member team supporting Markets and Business development activities for EY global

Some achievements

oP/L of $ 5M for FY13

oWon new business from our UK&I of to a $1M

oConsistent Quality scores of over 97%

Various

The Nielsen Company, India and Singapore Jun. 2005 – Jul. 2011

Team lead for Analytics team in India

Senior Manager for a major F&B client in Singapore

Media Tracking Analyst

Mix modelling and Segmentation and targeting specialist

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) Economics (MS University)

Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) (MS University)

Black belt in Six Sigma (Indian Statistical Institute)

New Directors Orientation program (Indian Business School)

HOBBIES:

Reading/Teaching

Cooking

Numismatic

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